Claude Peck

After 15 years as arts editor at Star Tribune, Claude Peck has gone all night owl. His new post, as Senior Metro Editor, Nights, has him working with the paper's night copy desk on stories for online and the next day's news pages. He continues to co-write the Sunday Withering Glance column with Rick Nelson, and he edits the Saturday column about architecture and urban design, called Streetscapes.

A man identified by relatives as Philando Castile, 32, a St. Paul schools employee, died Wednesday night at HCMC. The shooting followed a traffic stop in Falcon Heights. On the video, Castile is slumped next to a woman, his T-shirt soaked with blood.

Osmo Vänskä 's return as music director included talks about his personal relationship with concertmaster Erin Keefe. Vänskä called the relationship a private matter, and said that he would refrain from taking part in decisions about Keefe's status with the orchestra.

Four well-known writers will appear at the Fitzgerald Theater this fall as part of the book-club series -- Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz (pictured), high-profile legal-affairs journalist Jeffrey Toobin, and bestselling authors Abraham Verghese and Erin Morgenstern.